With all the market action, I’ve spent more time managing holdings than normal this past week. A quick update on some moves I’ve made: I sold out of my iShares Singapore ETF (EWS) early last week at $13.92. As it turned out, the timing worked out quite nicely as shares worldwide suffered major setbacks but [...]

Readers should know I fancy myself a value investor, not an options trader. But conservative investors can benefit using options even if they don’t know much about the Greeks or implied volatility. Two strategies in particular — covered call writing and naked put writing — can be extremely valuable to long-term investors in volatile times [...]

Being a value investor, I always take great interest to see what long-established value gurus like Seth Klarman and Bruce Berkowitz are doing with their portfolios. While 13F-HR filings are incomplete snapshots at best as they detail no information on bonds, foreign stocks and other esoteric asset classes, some insight may still be gleaned from [...]